Digital piano keys too loud?

I recently bought a Yamaha CLP 635 for €1,600 and have been pretty happy with it so far. However, my roommates say the keys are too loud! Is there anything I can do about it, since I'm otherwise happy with the digital piano?

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AugureyFay
5 years ago

I just know the problem too well. The key noises are transmitted through the floor and in some cases also amplify. In order to reduce these vibrations, you have to somehow decouple the piano from the ground. There are very different solutions that work exactly but also depends on the floor and the building material of your house. A floor is e.g. heavier to decouple, because in principle helices transmit sound better than, for example, stone or tiles.

One way would be to put the piano on a thick carpet. I’ve heard that thick felt gliders should help. In addition, there are special couplers for subwoofers and other Hifi devices that are specially designed to capture such vibrations. There are different varieties, such as rubber or metal spikes, which works best with you, you must try out. By the way, a self-made variant of such couplers would be half-finished tennis balls. One last (something strange) possibility is to put pieces of a stable garden tube under the piano feet.

hoermirzu
5 years ago

There’s nothing you can do about it, that’s the keyboard that makes its sounds. Also the pedals “flashing” . As far away as possible from sleeping WG roommates who want to grow the chute on the balcony!

By the way, the Ymaha is a very good decision! Stage designs that have less “resonant bodies” are somewhat quieter or easier to damp.

ApolloAudio
5 years ago

Kawai is a little quieter. Otherwise ask if you can open the flap & Dlies can unpack it to damp the flaps, but should not cover them sensors

tommgrinn
5 years ago

I’ve experimented a lot of myself… save the money for the tennis balls. In fact, they can uncouple the super, but on such a resilient sponge piano it is no longer fun to play, the same with various insulating films and co..

I ended up with loudspeaker decouplers… with me, these in the link have made true miracles:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00EO2M0OY?tag=world-of-21&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&keywords=lautsprecher%20decoupling

With me, however, only 33 kg are carried. Yours is about 56 kg. By means of the metal jacket, however, it should not decompress these parts so quickly or to get too jazzy or you would have to put more than the 4 pieces under it. But also consider that this makes everything a little higher.

At Spikes, you’d get even higher, so I didn’t want to try it first, and I also have less horizontal vibrations that spring off the spikes well, but with the keyboards you just have vertical vibrations. It’s hard to imagine that the spikes could uncouple anything.

Otherwise, I can only join the previous speakers: you have to try a lot. As often as I have never obeyed my floor with my ear in my life;).

sunshine206
5 years ago

My son has a cork and he always plays over headphones. No one feels harassed.

Good

spelman
5 years ago
Reply to  sunshine206

Probably the questioner also plays with headphones, and the roommates feel duch the keypads harassed. That is how I raised the question.

verreisterNutzer
5 years ago
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sunshine206
5 years ago

Yes, I also know with the keys.Mh🤔There is no use to make it quieter. Oh, that so many things have to be upset about tacks! Then I would go on and talk to the roommates from when to when. It’s not like he’d put the stereo system down to stop and make it far after 10:00.A little insight from the roommates would not hurt them either. LG